I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them: children, duties, visits, bores, relations, the things that protect married people from each other.

~ Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (1926-2004)



Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

~ Lao-Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE)

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

~ Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919)

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

~ Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
~ Steve Jobs

Since my house burned down, I now own a better view,  of the rising moon.

~ Mizuta Masahide, poet and samurai (1657-1723)

The big thieves hang the little ones.

~ Czech proverb

Congratulation: The civility of envy.

~ Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)

A hungry man is not a free man.

~ Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965)

Very few of us are what we seem.

~ Agatha Christie

Some stories are true that never happened.

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1914-2004)

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

~ Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. 

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928) 

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

~ John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.

~ Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. 

~ Willa Cather